USA Today, Globe & Mail, and Toronto Star bestseller and a 2025 Edgar Award nominee. His YA mystery Keep This to Yourself (2019) was the winner of the 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Thriller, the 2020 Arthur Ellis Award for Best YA Crime Book, and the 2021 Ann Connor Brimer Award. His followup YA mystery I I Hope You're Listening (2020) was the winner of the 2021 Lambda “Lammy” Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery.
Ryan’s latest novel is We Had a Hunch.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "six of my favorite adult novels featuring young sleuths." One novel on the list:
Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, BernadetteRead about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.
Not a whodunnit, but an engaging mystery of a different sort. When eccentric architect Bernadette Fox disappears, her fifteen-year-old daughter Bee decides to piece together the truth.
Told through emails, documents, and Bee’s narration, it’s fast-paced, surprisingly heartfelt, and often outright hilarious. (One scene involving a mudslide had me literally crying with laughter).
Where’d You Go, Bernadette is among Kate McIntyre's seven top novels about only children, Francesca Segal's seven best books to prepare for motherhood, Kelly Simmons's six books to read with your teen or twentyish daughter, Jeff Somers's top five novels whose main characters are shut-ins and five books that use cultural anthropology to brilliant effect and top five novels featuring runaway parents, Heidi Fiedler's thirty-three books to read with your mother, the Star-Tribune's eight top funny books for dire times, Chrissie Gruebel's seven great books for people who love Modern Family, Charlotte Runcie's ten best bad mothers in literature, Joel Cunningham's seven notable epistolary novels and Chrissie Gruebel's five top books for readers inspired by Nora Ephron.
--Marshal Zeringue
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